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By Joey Ager At Design for Peace our vision is a growing ecosystem rich with contextually rooted experiments across Cascadia. As we accompany congregations in repurposing their underutilized spaces, we offer teams a design process to bring about viable new uses of church space that are rooted in context, supported by the congregation and community, and missionally aligned with the vision of Shalom.  This design process takes place in three concentric phases: discernment, design and...

By Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer and Zoe Forbes Across Counties, Together with Purpose On Saturday, October 18 we welcomed teams from 6 Ecumenical Congregations across 4 counties  to Common Good Tacoma for the first ever "Climate Resilience Design Table" Kickoff! This Design Table is a group of people dedicated to joining with the Spirit in pursuing Shalom by effectively stewarding church space towards climate resilience in the Pacific Northwest. We shared food, spiritual practice, sang together ,...

By Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer As the charism goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” One element of Climate Resilience is social-relational resilience, which is all about knowing people and building trust based on listening to the wisdom and needs of the community. So as we began designing the 6-month Climate Resilience Design Table Cohort, we knew we would surround the cohort with an interconnected web of regional support and insight. That is how the Climate...